Remember kids. It's not about post-game. It's about the overall content.

real and true

>>57926105 (OP)
Why is pic a wrong strawman? If the post game is so important than clearly that means the credits are arbitrary, you don't really feel like the game is finished or completed if you get to the credits and there is a post game, so why even use it as a metric? If the main game is, say, 10h of content and the post game is 3h, how is that lower quality than pushing it all before the credits for a 13h experience?
I will level with you, I enjoy post game content too, but with how modern pokemon guts content that, back in the day, would be included in the main game comparing Isle of Armor and Crowned Tundra to Sevii Islands seems appropriate. Just don't sell me CT and IoA seperatley and I feel like I'm getting that same amount of content regardless if I'm allowed to go to it earlier than the credits.

postgame doesn't exist. Either a game has good pacing or bad pacing, that's it

>>57926144
postgame = post main campaign

>>57926144
>the entire game is just a tutorial and optional autism collectathons are the real gameplay!!!!
Absolute retard take

>>57926144
>brown esl
lol just go away

>>57926160
Unovafags expect people to side with then when they're all blatantly racist

>>57926184
racist website, sweetie

LOL I accidentally clicked on /vp/ and this is the first thread I see. You people are so fucking miserable with your arrested development. Beyond pathetic. Like bro just give up the series at this point

>>57926184
>unova out of nowhere
Holy schizophrenia, Yawnie!

>>57926204
back to /v/eddit you go!

>>57926105 (OP)
top-bw
mid-bw2
bottom-xy

>>57926211
/tv/, actually. Which is more like /pol/-lite these days. Just jumped in a thread about Mewtwo here out of curiosity though, that thread is way more chill. I somewhat retract my initial statement, some of you guys seem cool.

>>57926221
>/tv/ pedo pretends to have any kind of high ground
didn't read the rest.

>>57926227
Yea you did.

>>57926247
prove it

>>57926204
>lol, I accidentally walked in here and saw this so I decided to comment to show how you guys care so much about this trifle and how normal I am
Alright buddy, sure.

>>57926221
Oh thank God, the /tv/ loser thinks some of us are cool.

>>57926266
Tisk tisk all you people can do is assume things about my character when I call out your contempt for the series you claim to care about. Like come on, "normal" on 4chan? The misery is stifling

>>57926313
whiole internet is miserable and full of ironic shitposting, what did you expect? you wanted a hugbox? the franchise is in shambles, my dude.

>>57926338
Well I'm sorry to hear that. Thought you guys had some really solid ROM hacking communities at least right?

>>57926372
yeah romhacks...full of edge and dumb shit like clover. yeah.

>>57926313
>when I call out your contempt for the series you claim to care about
Lking or loving something doesn't mean you glaze over details and endlessly praise it you absolute double nigger

>>57926144
>Game gives advertised narrative, this is the "mandatory content"
>Other content that doesn't progress that narrative exists, this is "optional/side content"
>Finishing the mandatory content, signified by the credits means you have "beaten the game"
>More content is unlocked, this is considered optional/side content and is typically open-ended
>This content is locked behind completing all mandatory content (hence the term "post-game content"), and is typically much more difficult than the mandatory content, hence why it's not mandatory content and blocked from the player until they're guaranteed to have built up enough skill to start doing it

When it comes to Pokémon, a game is considered exceptional if both the mandatory content and post-game content are sizable (ie. Platinum) without paying additional fees. Compare to SwSh, which has barebones mandatory content bereft of dungeons, or Ruby and Sapphire, which have little post-game.

>>57926411
>and is typically much more difficult

>>57926399
first few posts of this thread lead me to believe you people don't even know what to be angry about, seeing as how there is no concrete "postgame" criteria established. my impression was you people just like being angry at this series for the sake of it.

>>57926423
That's a Gen V+ problem
Post the Trainer teams

>>57926424
>I came here on accident
>knows the ins and outs of this board and the pokemon community
weird

>>57926613
kek true

>>57926221
Most non-genwar threads are pretty chill. Sadly about half of the threads in the catalog are genwar bait. You learn to ignore it eventually, or at least to not participate.

>>57926631
then why genwars often reach the bump limit?

>>57926643
Because some faggots never grow up and keep wasting their day away by having playground-tier fights. If you don't grow up, you don't learn to avoid this.
Also a lot of posters here are legitimately children.

>>57926643
half is samefagging, half is retards being baited by yawnchad

>>57926105 (OP)
>>57926144
I refuse to believe that, well for one you two are the same person, but also, and more importantly, that you are implying that the credits, which in Pokémon plays after the credits but before any chance to play the battle facilities, are a signal to turn off the television and go outside, or something similarly game-ending. Superbosses cannot exist, nor can secrets only activated once you load back into the game.
I swear, you're some sorta boomer who has only played things like the original Legend of Zelda or Super Mario Bros, aka games with no reward besides an end screen.

>>57926686
In other JRPGs you can fight superbosses and "battle facilities" (like Gold Saucer) before the credits. The important thing is to have them in them in the game, regardless if they're before or after the credits. That was the point of the OP

>>57926105 (OP)
>top
HGSS
>middle
Emerald
>bottom
BW/BW2

>>57926702
hgss is more like the middle one twice in a row, as in
>content
>content
>credits
>content
>content
>credits
and then add a bit more content to the end for good measure
basically what im saying is HGSS is by far the best Pokémon game

>>57926105 (OP)
Yes, indeed. Luckily most of the games with bigger post games typically have more content overall.

>>57926184
Unovafans are unironically the least racist fans I've seen. If you want racist, look at the Alola and Paldea fans.

>>57926423
A handful of simple routes is better than none at all
Especially when there's more complex stuff mixed in.

>>57926456
Ehh more 6, 8 and 9 (excluding DLC)

>>57926631
Genwar and coomer bait threads

>>57926654
More like yawnfag samefagging

>>57926943
Yep. Honestly I don't even see the coomer threads anymore. I just don't perceive them.

>>57926942
7's routes are terrible, easily some of the worst in the franchise. It and 8 (minus Wild Area/DLC) are at the bottom tier of route design.

>>57926105 (OP)
Postgame has always just been slang for content. Your pic is just demoralization by a retard trying to make you hate the term because there's no other way he could defend his favorites.

>>57926105 (OP)

>>57927697
you forgot this

>>57927697
honest image

>>57927729
dishonest image

oh my yawn

>>57927735
nope

>>57927729
BW2 and XY have literally the exact same number of routes, so this isn't accurate

nice cope though

>>57927739
its accurate

>>57927739
>BW2 and XY have literally the exact same number of routes, so this isn't accurate
And if we include everything else of the region?

>>57927839
then XY still has more because it has more replayable content lmao

>>57927842
no it doesnt

>>57927737
>>57927742
>>57927846
>-ACK!

>>57927697
>platinum has more postgame than BW2

>>57927995
how much of that time is lag lmao

>>57928188
99%

>>57928184
sounds right to me

>>57926105 (OP)
Based.
Fuck Sword and Shit shills.

>>57927995
Yeah, I call bullshit on that. No way there's more than 12 people who completed BW2. It would be an insult to their lives to waste all that time collecting the metals.

Postgame content and campaign content are fundamentally different in how they are designed

>>57928684
>using the daycare is fundamentally different design that absolutely needs to be after the credits
>the fishing rod is fundamentally different design that absolutely needs to be after the credits
>reviving fossils is fundamentally different design that absolutely needs to be after the credits
>this route is fundamentally different design that absolutely needs to be after the credits (please ignore that it shows up before the credits in the sequel)

>>57928692
>>using the daycare is fundamentally different design that absolutely needs to be after the credits
>>reviving fossils is fundamentally different design that absolutely needs to be after the credits
Funnily, BW2 weren't the first to do these two.

>>57926184
Thank you for luring out all the borts kind sir so we can squish them.

People aren't ready to accept this particular "truth nuke", as the kids call it, but the Battle Frontier has never been fun. I'd rather start a new game.

>>57928772
I just see seething about gen 5 tbqh
Like every genwar thread

>>57928776
Anyone who doesn't like the Factory doesn't matter.

>>57928795
Actual trvke

>>57926204
Unfortunately, /vp/ is full of threads of a handful of retards shitflinging and making shitty infographics over 2-3 children's games from over a decade ago.